Sticky Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48929 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Cordia myxa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Sticky Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Sticky Fruit | Geography Description | India, Asia-Tropical | ||
| Uses | Sticky FruitUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 18 E 4 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1985 | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Cordia myxa Linn., latifolia, Roxb. The fruit. Vernacular - Lasora (Hind), Bahub Ra (Beng.), Bhokar, Sapist N (Bomb.), Naruvilli (Tam.) History Uses etc, The dried fruits of these trees are the selu of Sanskrit writers, the Sapistan of the, Mahomatans and the Sesestens of old European works on Materia Medica. Both trees are common in many parts of India. On the western coast C. latifolia is abundant in Gujerat, where it is called Boorgoond, and C. myxa in the neighbourhood of Bombay. The nat, ives pickle the fruit of both trees. Medicinally the dried fruit is valued on account of its mucilaginous nature and demulcent properties; it is much used in coughs and chest affections, also in irritation of the urinary passages; in larger quantities it, is given in bilious afflictions as a laxative. Mahomatan writers describe two kinds of Sapestan; the greater (Cordifolia) the pulp of which is separable from the stone, and the lesser (Myxa) the pulp of which is adherent. The word Sapestan is an abbr. of, Sag-pistan which means in Persian 'Dogs Dugs'. In Arabic they are called Dibk and Mukhitah. Both trees are minutely described by Roxburgh. According to Horsfield the bark of Myxa is used by the Javanese as a tonic. C.myxa - Drupe globular, smooth, the siz, e of a cherry, sitting in the enlarged calyx; when ripe yellow, the pulp almost transparent, very tough and viscid. Nut cordate, at both ends bidentate and perforated, rugose, somewhat four-sided, four-celled; but it rarely happens that all prove fertile., Seeds solitary. Both kinds of fruit when dry are shrivelled and of the colour of a dried prune. The pulp of cordifolia can be separated from the nut that of C.myxa cannot. On sawing through the nut a heavy disagreeable smell is observable. | ||||
| Determinations: | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Cordia myxa L. 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Cordia obliqua Willd. | ||||